Alternative Rock Band Set
June 7, 2024
Playing guitar with Audiohead at Connolly’s on June 8th @ 7:10pm for a 90s set Full youtube playlist here
Poet Coded: A Reading, April 10 7pm @ Unnameable Books
March 6, 2024
I’ll be reading at Unnameable Books with Walter Ancarrow, Emily Lee Luan, Shannon Pulusan, and Mya Matteo Alexice. 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, April 10 7pm.
CUNYGC IRADAC Fellowship
August 10, 2023
Proud to announce that I am a 2023-2024 Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Associate at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. From the website: “The Institute for Research on the African
Button Poetry 2022 Chapbook Contest Finalist
May 8, 2023
My chapbook Paseo Cats is a finalist over at Button Poetry‘s 2022 chapbook contest!
Poetry Reading for Emma Safir’s Peripeteia
April 26, 2023
Join us for a closing event and the launch of the Blade Study publication Emma Safir: peripeteia and poetry readings by Tobi Kassim, Luiza Dale, Imani Elizabeth Jackson and David M. de León. Blade Study17 Pike St. New York NY 10002 Saturday 4/29 6-8pm
“All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere” in The Yale Review
March 9, 2023
Why today’s movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
Poetry Night at the Library: Feb 16, 6pm
January 28, 2023
Come join us for a lovely night of poetry! Witness contemporary, groundbreaking work by featured poets David M. de León and Jade Yeung and stay for an open mic afterwards to share your own work or hear from others. Signups for the open mic are first come, first served, and
Talk on Tyehimba Jess’s Olio at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
January 17, 2023
Step Right Up: Spectacle, Mask, and Minstrelsy in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio. Program in Comparative & World Literature, Tuesday, Feb 7, 5:30-6:30pm
Communal Spaces 2022
September 1, 2022
Communal Spaces 2022 is going up weekends in September. Free outdoor theater!
First Book Institute at CALS
June 8, 2022
David was selected for Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies First Book Institute this summer, moderated by Sean X. Goudie and Priscilla Wald.